Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — Republican Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Republican Ticket.

I'w ('orppration Oflicerw. For Trunloo ot Pint District, JOHN li. VAN ATT A. For TmsU'o Second District. ’ ! " i^ a ' irT ' FERtU’sofff^ For Town Clerk. VALENTINE 5F.115. For Town Treasurer, THOMAS .1. 1 AUDEN. For Town Marshal, JOSEPH 01. A R K....

In a few months the Democracy has completely underhimed itself, and at the Opening of a presidential- campaign they wore bold to claim they would win four months 7 ago. Tlie Dehibn'hTic party Ims; within the last few mouths been stripped of every assumption, bared of every pretension or pro testation in favor of reform, ovon according to its own peculiar notions of reform, and stands on the verge of the prosidentnl ’election naked, without an issue, and hungry for office. —{ Kansas City Journal. The Democratic party Stands halting between conflicting opinions, practically) confessing that it is unable to say what is its own tariff policy. Is it any wonder that the business men of the country decline to trust such a party? Is it any wonder that the merchants and manufacturers, the farmers and the mechanics, conclude that a political organization which has not statesmanship enough to find out and formulate what its convictions are on the taritY, is totally unfit to be given the reins of government? * Is it any wonder that leading Democratic newspapers already give up Hie presidential fight?—-[ New York Tribune, ttWtINMMbIMMIMH’ . - It is mainly through the power of sophistry, falsehood and prejudice that the'' Democratic party retains the adherence of any honest and honorable men The misleading article in the last Sentinel, based »pon an extract from The Rmw- ; an of the same week, is tho same in principle, weak and pitiful as it is in quality, ns have been all the slanders, equivocations and sophisms by which that party Ims sought to secure power and places for a generation. The Sentinel’s article, judging from the wail about the draft, is from the pen bf some war worn survivor of Dodd's raiders, or some kindred article worthy of notice is the (tempt to make the Republican party responsible for Vanderbilt’s and others' enormous aocumulaiion of wealth.- Now the undeni- ; able truth of the matter is that j Old OofimnioJore Vanderbilt made' mi immense fortune before the 1 «nr, while the -nation was under i Semorratic control, and leaving! the bulk of *t to his son V. H.; V mdei bilt, all the latter has done ■ was to invest it in safe, securities, nud its natural increase fins been sufficient to swell his fortune to] its present inordinate' dimensions.' Kyvn in vestal in government bonds, as much of his wed this, at the low .rate of interest made• possible by Republican control of the government. his income is somuch beyond ids selfish power to' expend, thaidke. increase of his! fortune is vary great. Tlie great Aster fortune, too, was acquired in emocraiie days -and much of that .lit Stewards- Many, other; cases wight mentioned. but %by waste further time upon th*No one fe&Ta iiowiingj kliot »i an -miprinciplod partisan! toakt Hurt it is; the fauiitof « pf ny tkav* fewjnmG